Description of problem: NetworkManager-openvpn does not support the "verify-x509-name" option, which would replace the deprecated "tls-remote" option. Please add support for verify-x509-name to allow a transition from tls-remote. Thanks
fixed upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770922 and also fixed in F25 by package >= NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-0.1.fc25
Can we backport his to epel7
(passing the question on, as I am not the epel7 maintainer)
If would require a backported patch, as 1.2.6 requires NetworkManager-glib >= 1.2.0, and EL7 uses 1.0.6.
@Jon, is this something we can easily do? I am about to open 2 more requests for the openvpn plugin.. maybe we can make it one bigger patch and backport that to EL7 . Would be surely great.
rhel-7.3 will bring libnm >= 1.2.0 and a NetworkManager that is compatible with the latest version of nm-openvpn. I think the latest release (1.2.6) would be fine, exactly what's in Fedora 25 (NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-1.fc25). Note that NetworkManager in Fedora 25 is quite similar to what will come in rhel-7.3. (the same is true for most other NetworkManager VPN plugins).
(In reply to Oliver Haessler from comment #5) > @Jon, is this something we can easily do? I am about to open 2 more requests > for the openvpn plugin.. maybe we can make it one bigger patch and backport > that to EL7 . Would be surely great. I don't think so, which makes RHEL 7.3 especially welcome.
so will that mean that we have this option in RHEL 7.3?
It means that when the EPEL-7 ecosystem reaches 7.3, we can build it.
Building a new version would also permit to fix a few others bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288711 was fixed upstream https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260168 same. I suspect the others bugs opened would also be fixed.
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-1.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1427c2b2fc
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1427c2b2fc
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.